A fully-digital, 0.3V, 270 nW capacitive sensor interface without external references

European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 287-290

  Danneels, Hans ^a   Coddens, Kristof ^b   Gielen, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Melexis   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; CAPACITIVE SENSOR INTERFACE; SIGNAL SWINGS; SUPPLY VOLTAGES; VOLTAGE DOMAINS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; SENSORS;

DIGITAL CIRCUITS;

EID: 82955201549     PISSN: 19308833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2011.6044963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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